TheClone Wars were the ultimate Jedi trap.
They were irresistible bait.
They took place in remote locations, on planets that belonged, primarily, to ‘someone else.’
They were fought by expendable proxies.
And they were constructed as a win-win situation.
The Clone Wars the perfect Jedi trap.
By fighting at all, the Jedi lost.
It all came to a head, of course, inOrder 66.
When the Jedi were dead, Malgus ordered a planetary bombardment that ravaged Coruscant.
“But we have been a military force in the past,” said Oppo Rancisis.
“In fact, our predecessors waged and won the Great Sith Wars.
There is endless precedent in the chronicles for this sort of thing.”
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“True, but we are not at war now.
We are the farthest thing from it,” said Rana Kant.
“Not the farthest,” replied Yarael Poof.
EvenGeorge Lucas intended there to be 50-100 Order 66 survivors.
I wonder whether we’ll ever see this play out in canon?
